Milk futures were higher in the near term and cash dairy prices were lower except for cheese blocks Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
April Class III milk was up $0.37 at $19.36. May was up $0.23 at $18.67. June was up $0.10 at $18.60. July was down $0.12 at $18.83. August through February contracts ranged from unchanged in February to fourteen cents lower in November.
Dry whey was unchanged at $0.4475. One sale was recorded at $0.42.
